Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

By: Naomi Shragai

Narrated by: Naomi Shragai

Brought to you by Penguin.

Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.

There's no place like home...or work?

You probably don't realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it's confusing an authority figure with a parent; avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings; or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up.

Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality; but most of us also spend fifty years - or 90,000 hours - in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously re-enact our personal past in our professional present - even when it holds us back.

Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions, business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragaiwill show you that what is holding you back is within your gift to change - and the first step is to realise how you, like the rest of the people you work with, habitually confuse your professional present with your personal past.

©2023 Naomi Shragai (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array of other office issues, are what Naomi Shragai offers in Work Therapy. If you're searching for a new way to handle office politics, you could well find the answers in this book." (Sunday Times)

Motivational audio book boundaries

You as a psychologist should understand that people might listen to your books as a background to they daily routine and chanting "I'm worthless", "I will not be able to handle this l" as a quote of the person with psychological problems might cause subconscious calamity to the listener who might lost context or stopped paying attention.

Aimless

Started well but wandered aimlessly without a clear script.
I had higher hopes based on the start but was unfortunately disappointed.

7 hours best spent elsewhere.

Some really good insights.

Shragai’s words compelled me to think through some of the issues plaguing me and it was an interesting listen.